Undergarment.



PATENTED Nov. 15, 1904.

G. H. LUMB.

UNDERGARMEHT.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 15. 1904.

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Patented November 15, 1904.

UNTTED STATES PATENT @EEiCE.

GEORGE H. LUMB, OF PAWTUUKET, RHODE ISLAND.

UNDERGARIVIENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 775,086, datedNovember 15, 1904.

Application filed July 15, 1904. Serial No. 216,676- No niodcld To allwhom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. LUMB, a citizen of the United States,residing at Pawtucket, in the county of Providence and State of RhodeIsland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inUndergarments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in undergarments, particularly forinfants; and the purpose of the same is to provide an undershirt whichshall have a variable neck-opening, a double thickness throughout theentire front and additional protection between the shoulder-blades, anda diaper-tab for the attachment of a diaper.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention, Figure 1 being afront View of the undershirt, the position of parts in this figure beingthat which they occupy when the shirt is on the infant; Fig. 2, asectional view through :1 .z' of Fig. 1.

In Fig. 1, I) is the back of the garment, shown as toward the spectator.c is the intermediate layer, and (1/ the front, knitted at the edges too. The parts (a, I), and c constitute the body of the shirt, the partsa. and a forming a double closed front and the part 7) forming a closedback. The parts a and c are united together and to the back I) at theedges, and suitable sleeves are attached to the shirt in the usual or inany desired manner. The shirt being closed both in front and back, it isnecessary that the neck opening be made larger than where the shirt isopen in the front or in the back, and this enlarged opening is shown inFig. 1 of the drawings being bounded by the upper edge of the innerlayer 0 of the front of the garment and the upper edge of the back I) ofthe shirt, the former edge being shown partly in full and partly indotted lines and the latter edge being shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1.Pendent from cand a part thereof is the tab (3, forming a suitablesupport, to which a diaper may be pinned. Integral with the front a arethe flaps a 0, adapted to be brought over from the front to the back andthere secured by a safety-pin (Z.

The dotted lines in Fig. I show the flaps before adjustment and the fulllines It a the same when adjusted to the wearer. The opening between 7)and c at the top of the garment is made nearly as large as the body ofthe garment, the neck adjustment being effected wholly by means of theflaps u a.

In putting the garment on the infant the flaps u. u are raised above thetop of the shirt to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1 and thehead of the infant is passed through the neck-opening. The flaps u u"are then folded down on the back of the shirt one over the other andsecured together by a safety-pin (Z, as shown in the full linesinFig. 1. These flaps also give an increased thickness of protection tothat portion of the hollow of the back which is most sensitive to cold.

I do not use buttons or buttonholes to secure the flaps 1/ It, as thiswould defeat the principal object which the flaps are designed toaccomplished: but by the use of a safetypin or its equivalent the flapsmay be adjusted so as to provide an opening of any size desired.

Having now described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

1. A garment having a closed back and a closed front, said front beingformed of two layers. one of said layers terminating in flaps adapted tobe brought about the neck and secured together over the back.

2. An undershirt comprising a body part and sleeves, the body parthaving a closed back and a closed front. the front consisting of twolayers, one of said layers or thicknesses being provided with curvedflaps on its upper end adapted when the garment is in position on thewearer to be secured together one over the other on the outside of theback of the shirt.

In testimony whereof I atiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

(1" EORh-E H. LUMB.

\Vitnesscs:

JAMES L. JENKS, FLORENCE E. Barns.

